Federal COVID-19 Recovery Fund

WSIA has joined the America’s Recovery Fund Coalition, a broad-based group of more than 100 trade associations and business organizations representing 30 business sectors with 58 million employees and 45 percent of the American workforce advocating for a grant-based federal assistance program to power the recovery of American enterprise. This recovery fund initiative would be part of the next wave of stimulus that Congress proposes.

America’s Recovery Fund would provide funding to help businesses retain and rehire staff, pay rent, adapt to new requirements and meet certain debt and tax obligations. Active support for this type of comprehensive program is the most productive approach to addressing the immediate needs of businesses and their employees directly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic disruptions—not violating the U.S. Constitution and setting a dangerous precedent in contract law and insurance policy as retroactive business interruption coverage legislation would do.